Earlier this week, we reported that the Korean Nintendo web site had accidentally revealed an announced character coming to Donkey Kong Bananza (spoilers!), and now the web site has confirmed an iconic observe is making a return for Mario Kart World.
Warning! Potential Mario Kart World spoilers observe:
As with the Donkey Kong snafu, the guilty photos had been eliminated speedily from the official web site, however not earlier than somebody snapped them and posted them to Reddit, of course.
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As the photographs are fairly fuzzy — and there's no accompanying textual content — that is primarily all we all know thus far. With a little cross-checking, it seems as if a hidden Rainbow Road observe will sit just under Princess Peach's Stadium on the four-way intersection within the bay space (thanks, Eurogamer), though it's unclear if it's a secret observe or some type of unlockable additional.
It's also got some fans wondering if each four-way intersection might be the situation of a hidden course.
On Monday, Nintendo justified Mario Kart World's shock $80 price tag in response to controversy over the $10 hike for some Switch 2 video games. IGN interviewed Nintendo of America's Vice President of Product and Player Experience, Bill Trinen, at a latest Switch 2 preview occasion in New York, and requested about Nintendo’s pricing strategy (albeit forward of Nintendo’s announcement about delaying Switch 2 pre-orders in the U.S. due to the potential impact of tariffs).
“I would say it's less about the strategy of pricing Mario Kart World, it's more just whenever we look at a given game, we just look at what is the experience, and what's the content, and what's the value?” Trinen mentioned on the time.
As IGN has reported, some Nintendo fans have expressed concern that they may be priced out of the next-generation if the corporate goes even larger than the already controversial costs for the Switch 2 and its video games equivalent to Mario Kart World due to the tariff state of affairs.
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